Ocula Report ‘An Opera for Animals’ at Rockbund Art Museum 19 Jul 2019 : Penny Liu for Ocula An Opera for Animals was first staged at Para Site in Hong Kong between 23 March and 2 June 2019, with works by over 48 artists and collectives that use opera as a metaphor for modes of contemporary, cross-disciplinary art-making. The exhibition's second iteration takes up a large portion of the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai (22 June–25...
Ocula Conversation Mandy El-Sayegh: Productive Ambiguity Moving across installation, painting, drawing, and writing, Malaysia-born and London-based artist Mandy El-Sayegh explores the political, social, and economic complexities of humanity, using a mosaic of information—from advertising slogans and pornographic imagery to newspaper articles—that she subjects to processes of layering,...
Ocula Report Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House 5 Jul 2019 : Jareh Das for Ocula Get Up Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House in London (12 June–15 September 2019) surveys more than half a century of black creativity in Britain and beyond across the fields of art, film, photography, music, design, fashion, and literature.Curated by Zak Ové, works by approximately 100 intergenerational black...
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Related Press Wilding & Richardson wow in South Kensington The Art Newspaper : 1 April 2019 The show is a dialogue between Wilding and Leeds-born Frances Richardson who is showing Because the two parts don’t quite touch (2019)—a looped structure surrounded by a pair of boulders—among other works.
Related Press Alison Wilding review – pure sculpture from an artist whose time has come The Guardian : 22 June 2018 Wilding is an alchemist whose art is full of romance and mystery and sudden transformations. She is also, her mini-retrospective at the De La Warr Pavilion makes plain, an artist of nature. Her abstract forms may not at first glance appear to have any connection with the natural world. A black fibreglass balloon nestling inside a ring of galvanised...
Related Press Fascinating puzzles that pose mysterious questions - Alison Wilding, Whitworth, Manchester, review The Telegraph : 16 February 2018 At the Whitworth, a kind of mysterious gateway formed from interlocking recycled floorboards looms impressively over the centre of the room while a flotilla of silk and paper roses are adrift on a hemisphere of trashed concrete. Your first impression is of art that delights in very physical conjunctions of unlikely materials, but is at the same...
Related Press Shapes Are Held In Tension: A Conversation With Tess Jaray Forbes : 13 June 2017 There’s a physical quality to Tess Jaray’s paintings that comes through even in digital reproductions. Scrolling through an email containing images from Into Light, an exhibition of her work open at Marlborough Fine Art in London through June 17, feels a bit like walking into a shaft of sunlight in an ancient alley.
Related Press Rose English review – the unsung queen of British performance art The Guardian : 20 December 2015 Every element of this show is part of a plan for an immense performance project, conceived by Rose English a decade ago, which has never yet come to fruition. But perhaps it never can, or even should. The truth of life’s fragility, the bravery of the human heart, and the song of the body electric flow all the way through it. Everything you see and...
Related Press INTERVIEW: We talk to artist Ann-Marie James about her solo exhibition “Le Monde Moderne” at Edel Assanti FAD Magazine : 10 December 2015 Lee Sharrock talks to artist Ann-Marie James about her solo exhibition Le Monde Moderne at Edel Assanti. Since graduating with an MA in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Art in 2012, James has exhibited in London, Paris, Italy and Japan, and won a scholarship to the British School at Rome. The Edel Assanti solo exhibition in association with...
